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(linguistics, of a verb) Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.

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unaccusative

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Source Word

unaccusative

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌʌnəˈkjuːzətɪv/

not-comparable of a verb

Japanese Meaning

（言語学）自動詞の中で、体験者を主語とし、統語論上の主語が意味論上の能動者（行為者）ではない動詞。

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Many linguists argue that verbs like "fall" are unaccusative, since their subjects undergo rather than cause the event.

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多くの言語学者は、「fall」のような動詞を、主語が行為を引き起こすのではなく受ける自動詞であると主張している。

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The light-verb analysis sketched here also offers us a way of accounting for the fact that in Early Modern English, the perfect auxiliary used with unaccusative verbs was be (as we saw in §7.6), whereas that used with transitive and unergative verbs was have.

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